1. Moses called together all the people of Israel and said to them, “People of Israel, listen to all the laws that I am giving you today. Learn them and be sure that you obey them.
2. At Mount Sinai the Lord our God made a covenant,
3. not only with our fathers, but with all of us who are living today.
4. There on the mountain the Lord spoke to you face-to-face from the fire.
5. I stood between you and the Lord at that time to tell you what he said, because you were afraid of the fire and would not go up the mountain.“The Lord said,
6. ‘I am the Lord your God, who rescued you from Egypt, where you were slaves.
7. “ ‘Worship no god but me.
8. “ ‘Do not make for yourselves images of anything in heaven or on earth or in the water under the earth.